Power plant



Sept 19, 1933 F. KlsslNG ET AL POWER PLANT Filed June l5, 1932 Patented Sept. 179, r19393V t -1 l t .Y I

POWER PLANT pplication June 15, 1932, ySerial No. 617,397, and in Germany August 26, 1931 2 Claims. (C1. (so- 95) The present invention relates toY power plants, ceiving water or like fluid from pump 7 through more particularly to the kind of plants in which a conduit 12 and discharging the cooling water an elastic iiuid engine such as a turbine, a genor iluid to the condenser through a conduit 13. erator and exciter driven thereby are arranged Thus the vreducing gear 9, the cooling water 5 on one shaft with a condenser and a pump for pump7 and the Water turbine 11 together iorm (5 0.

the condenser to form a constructional unit, in substance a means for driving the condensate known as a turbo-block form. In such an ar- Dump. At least a part of the cooling medium rangement the condenser receives the .exhaust discharged from pump 7 OTInS a driving Ineelastic fluid from the'elastic fluid engine, and dium for the pOWei' agenCY '11. With Sii-Ch any condensate is discharged from the condenser by arrangement little additional vIJOWeiis necessary 65 means of a condensate pump. .Another pump for driving the cooling Water pump 7.- ilovid-Y has to be provided which may be driven by the ed on the shaft of the Water turbine` is another' turbine shaft for circulating cooling medium, auXiliaiy apparatus, rill the present nStaIlCe such as water, through the condenser. In in- SliQWn aS an aiiXlaiy gnerato 14, COnIlGCteC t0 stallations of this kind it has been the practice an electric line 15. This auxiliary generator 701i in some cases to drive 'the condensate pump by may serve as a. house generator or the like in means of a transmission gearing from the turcase the main generator 4 fails. During operabine shaft. The arrangement of the transmise tion, pumping means '1 pumps cooling medium sion gearing in many cases causes dirTlculties, SllCh aS Water iOin any Suitable VSOiiICe, IlOt inparticularly when the pump is located below or dicated, to turbine 11 with respect to which the 7.5

near the lower part of the condenser. cooling medium formsk a driving medium.l r:Cur-

'Iheobject of the present invention is to probine 1l diSCllaigeS this mdium t0 Condenser 3.Y vide an improved arrangement for rdriving a oon- COndenSate Pump l0 Dumps condensate' lOIn densate pump or like auxiliary 'apparatus in the condenser and discharges it to any suitable 8 A25 power plants whereby the condensate pump can point, nOt ShOWn in the CliaWing. 0

-l-- sidered as typical of any turbine installation in be placed in any,l suitable positionV without` re- With our invention We have aCCOinDliShed a gard to the location of the main shaft. simple and reliable arrangement for driving an For a consideration of what we believe to be auxiliary apparatus, particularly a condensate novel and our invention, attention is directed to pump in an elastic fluid power plant by means the fOllOWing deSCliptiOn and the Claims appendof a Water turbine receiving its driving medium ed thereto. in connection with the drawing which from the coolingwater pump, t l Y forms a part Qf 0111' Speccaton- Having described the method of operation of In the dawmg We have Shofvn filalgmmma'pl" our invention, together.v with the` apparatus cally by way of example a turbine installation 1n which We DOW consider to, represent the' best. 90

- turbo-block form embodying our invention. 1

designates an elasticl fluid turbine having an exembodlment thereof We deslre to have 1t utlder",

stood that the apparatus shown 1s only illushaust conduit 2 connected to a condenser 3. l t t. d th t th u is an electric generator driven by the turbine ra We an a e Inventum may be Canned.

out by other means. l

and connected to an electric line 5. `6 is an ex- Citer for the generaton .What we claim as new and desire to secure by 95 For circulating cooling Water or like cooling Letters Patent m the Umted States 1s.:

fluid through the condenser we provide a cool- 1' In a power plantvthe oo mbmatlon of an ing Water or fluid pump 7 driven from the tup elastic fluid turbine, a vcondenser connected to bine shaft s through a reducing gear 9. 1o desthe turbine 'exhaust e Water pump driven from ignates the condensate pump for discharging the turbine shaft and having an outlet connect-A condensate of the condenser. 10a iS an Outlet ed to the condenser for forcing cooling water for discharging the cooling water from the coninw the Comdensery a condensate pump' having degit f d b d b an inlet connected to the condenser for dischargearrangemen S0 al" esem e may e con' ing condensate therefrom, and means for driv- 105 turbo-block form. Whereas heretofore it has mg the' condensate-"pump comprising a Water been the pract'to drive the condensate pump turbine connected between said Waterrpump and by means of a transmission gearing from the the Condenser and driven by the Water diS- .5 turbine shaft, according to our invention we pro-V Chaiged from the Wati Dump. 1.1.0

' vide a Water turbine or like power agency 11 re- 2. In a power plant, the. combination of an ed to the condenser for forcing cooling 4Water elastic fluid turbine, a condenser connected to the turbine exhaust, a water pump driven from the turbine shaft and having an outlet connectinto the condenser, va condensate pump having an inlet connected to the condenser for discharging condensate therefrom, a Water turbine coniof f 

